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R. FALTER.

BABY PANTS.

APPLICATION FILED APR.3. 1920.

Patented Ja 3,1922;

WITNESSES men rams-n, or .Bnoox YN, NEW YORK.

BABY PANTS.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD FALTER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borou h of Brook- 1 n, in the county of Kings and tate of New ork, have invented new and Improved Baby Pants, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved baby pants or diaper cover arranged to permit convenient adjustment at the waist, sides and legs to properly fit the garment to the babys body and to compensate for the increase in size in the babys body due to the growth thereof.

1 Another object is to dispense with hooks,

buttons or similar protruding and undesirable adjusting and fastening devices.

With these and other objects in view, the

invention consists of certain novel features I of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claim.

position 'justable sides of the pants with adiusted to the fullest extent;

Figure 3 is ,a similar. view of the same with the parts adjusted to intermediate Figure 4 is a similar view of the same with y the parts adjusted to smallest position; and

Figure 5 isa reduced plan view ofthe body of the garment spread out.

- The body 10 of the baby pants or diaper cover is made from a sin le piece of suitable fabric material having approximately parallel ends, curved cut-out portions at the sides of the median line, and converging side edges extending from the cut-out portions to the ends, and the said single piece when doubled up along the broken line shown in Figure 5 provides'a body open at the sides and forming legs 11 for the passage of'the legs of the baby, as will be readily understood by reference to Figure 1. The upper end of the body 10 is provided with front and rear sections 12 and 13 of a waistband, and the ed es of the body at each side are provided with bindings 14 and '15 con- Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed April 3,

1920. Serial No. 371,035

necting at their upper ends with the waistband sections 12 and 13 and connecting at their lower ends with'bindings 16 and 17 at the lower ends of the legs 11..

In order to close the open sides of the body .10 and to provide adjustment for the Patented Jan. 3.1922

sections 12 and 13 of the waistband and the bindings 16 and '17 of the legs 11, use is made of a single lacing string 20, one for each side, 'and laced through eyelets 21,, 22 formedin the side bindings 14- and 15 and passing through selected sets of eyelets 23,24 at the waistband sections 12 and 13, and similar eyelets 25, 26 arranged in the leg bindings l6 and 17. The lacing string is engagedat j' its middle with a corresponding pan of eyelets 25, 26, and is then laced throughthe eye lets 21, 22 and finally passed through a selected pair of eyelets 23, 24, after which the ends of the. lacing string 20 are tied into a bow knot 30 at the upper end of the corresponding side of. the garment, as will; be.

readily understood by reference to the draw 1 en the baby pants or diaper cover is first used on .the babys body, the lacing string 20 is engaged with the lowermost pair of eyelets 25, 26 and with the outermostpair of eyelets 23, 24, as plainlyindicated in Figure 4. As the baby grows, the lacing" string 20 is engaged at its lower end with the'next following pair of eyelets 25, 26 at a the legs andwith the nextfollowing pair of eyelets 23,24 at the waist, as plainly shown in Figure 3, thus enlarging the legs and waistband of the body 10 to suit the growth of the baby. Later on, the lacing string 20 is engaged withthe uppermost pair of eyelets 25, 26 and the innermost pair of eyelets 5 f. 23, 24, as shown in Figure 2, to further com-z pensate for the increase in the babys body at i,

the legs and waist. It will also be noticed that the body 10 may be enlarged by correspondingly looseniiig the lacing string 20at' the eyelets 21, 22. raw strings. 40 are referably arranged at the-rear of the body 10 as an additional means of adju'stment'at the waistband.

,From the foregoing it will be seen that bythe arrangement described the baby pants or diaper cover can be conveniently adjusted 1 at the sides, waist and legs to properly fit the garment on the babys body and to compensate forthe increase in size of the babys body. due to the growth thereof. It will also be notlced that by the use of eyelets and the draw string undesirable protruding or projecting fastening devices are dispensed with.

side edges at each side having oppositely ar- 1 ranged eyelets, and the ends of the waistband sections and the leg portions having a plurality of eyelets, andlacing strings, one for each side of the body, each of said lacing strings engaging the oppositely. arrange eyelets of the side edges and engaging a selected pair of eyelets of the ends of the corresponding leg portions and a'selected pair of the eyelets of the corresponding adjacent waistband ends to allow of progressively enlarging the baby pants to compensate for the increase in the size of the babys body.

RICHARD FALTER. 

